COMPLETE Guide For Chemotherapy Effects and It's Treatment

FOLFOX 4 Chemotherapy

A drug that is added to another drug or a drug used as a combination drug to treat cancer is a usual standard in chemotherapy. It has been proved that chemotherapy using more than one drug has not only showed an increase in the survival rate but has also shown to help patients live a quality life. Apart from this FOLFOX 4 along with eloxatin has shown to have a great improvement on the patients.

It has been proved that patients treated with FLOFLZ 4 have shown lesser chances of relapse than those patients who have undergone the traditional mode of chemotherapy. Treating patients even in the 2nd and 3rd stages of colon cancer with FOLFOX 4 has proved effective.

With the advancement in science and medicines a combination of Avastin along with FOLFOX 4 chemotherapy has also shown a positive boost in the survival as well as quality life of patients suffering from metastatic colorectal cancer. Avastin and FOLFOX-4 have shown more benefits in phase 3 patients who have been detected with metastatic colorectal cancer than the use of only FOLFOX 4 thus improving their life.

The death rate of those patients who have been treated with Avastin along with FOLFOX 4 has shown to have reduced by nearly 26% with the side effects ration of only 0.74% who were subjected to only FOLFOX 4 mode of treatment only. There was also an increase I the life span of nearly a year and a half with those who were treated with both Avastin and FOLFOX 4, while there was an increase of survival rate to a year and three quarters who received only FOLFOX 4 with a remarkable improvement of nearly 17-18% thus it has been shown that FOLFOX 4 has more advantage over Avastin plus FOLFOX 4.

The side effects caused due to Avastin as well as a combination of both Avastin and FOLFOX 4 were almost the same. All these tests were carried out by various research groups to known the benefits of both Avastin with FOLFOX 4 and with FOLFOX 4 alone.

Those patients who were detected with an advance colorectal cancer and had received a treatment of fluorouracil along with irinotecan either as single drug chemotherapy or as combination drug chemotherapy had shown a relapse of cancer within a span of only six months after the completion of the treatment cycle. While those patients who have undergone a treatment with FOLFOX 4 with or with the use of another combination drug like Avastin have shown to have suspended the relapse for nearly a few years. Yet another thing that had come into notice was that the adverse effects of Avastin was the same as it way even when used as a single drug chemotherapy or when used as a combination drug chemotherapy.

The conclusion that came out of all the research was that FOLFOX 4 chemotherapy was a good mode of treatment for colon cancer and the end results were much better and satisfactory when it was used as combination drug chemotherapy or as single drug chemotherapy to treat metastatic colorectal cancer.